Menlo Park, California
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hotshoe
N 37° 27.245 W 122° 10.700
10S E 572672 N 4145564
Small and affluent city in the San Francisco Bay area
Waymark Code: WM58J5
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 11/28/2008
Views: 8
excerpts from wiki:
"Founded in the 1850's by Dennis J. Oliver and his brother-in-law D. C. McGlynn ... on the former Rancho de las Pulgas. The word "Menlo" derived from the owners' former home of Menlough in County Galway, Ireland."
"The Menlo Park Civic Center is bounded by Ravenswood Avenue, Alma Street, Laurel Street and Burgess Drive. It contains the council offices, library, police station and Burgess Park which has various recreational facilities."
"Home to the Western Region Geography office of the United States Geological Survey.
Sand Hill Road, location of many Silicon Valley venture capital firms.
Home to SRI International, formerly Stanford Research Institute.
Home to the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.
Corporate offices and show gardens of Sunset Magazine.
Google Inc. was founded here on September 7, 1998
Adjacent to Stanford University and Stanford Shopping Center."
coordinates given are at City Council chambers in the Civic Center complex.
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